Congrats to Jerritt, former UH Warrior (briefly), named AVCA coach of the year.

Announced at today’s awards banquet. here’s the release

Texas Volleyball head coach Jerritt Elliott has been named 2012 AVCA (American Volleyball Coaches Association) Division I National Coach of the Year, announced today. This is Elliott’s first national honor while coaching at Texas and the third time that a Big 12 coach has won the honor.

Elliott guided the Longhorns to a 27-4 overall record and UT’s fourth trip in five years to the NCAA Final Four. He led Texas to a 15-1 record and the 2012 Big 12 championship, his fifth conference title at the helm of the Longhorns.

if i remember correctly it was the 89-90 season but he was injured and don’t think he played. He transferred in from Pepperdine. Still great friends with Brian and Karrie Poppinga. The Poppingas have been living in Texas for a while now. Elliott considered Karrie for his assistant job but she had two young children at the time. Believe the job then went to Salima Davidson Rockwell, former Penn State setter.

Does anyone know if there is Archived Video of any of the Regional Finals/ this past Semi-Final matches? Info on this might have been posted somewhere earlier, but I have been so swamped with finals I have not been paying any attention to anything but results. Thanks.

What a block party the Horns had in Set 1. THEY OWNED THE NET with 6’3″ Molly McCage (Middle Blocker), 6’3″ Haley Eckerman (OH), 6’3″ Bailey Webster (OH). (FYI: Bailey Webster was my choice for Big12 POY, not Eckerman who won it.) And try as the Ducks may to hit high hands, Texas seems to be waiting for those high-hand attempts. Oregon has got to hit when the blockers hands are coming down! Easier said than done but they are a smart team.

Set 2: Bergsma finding her rhythm. Ducks, underwater throughout Set 1, is showing some buoyancy. But in spite of poor passing, Oregon’s Plum has got to set faster to beat the physicality of Texas. HALF TIME: Set 1 Texas (25-11), Set 2 Texas (26-24). Thus far, 15 errors for Oregon, only 3 for Texas.

Note: Should Longhorns win, it will be their first national volleyball championship in 24 years. (Were Hawai’i playing, the Bows would have been going for their first national volleyball championship in 25 years.)

Like the ESPN announcer said, Texas was flying under the radar almost all season long — especially with that conference-season-ending loss to Iowa State. Final Four-tested Texas — 15 blocks to 1 for Oregon — played an almost perfect match. Congrats to the Longhorns and MVP Bailey Webster. And congrats to the two Hawaii players on the team — though neither made any impact at all. Lol

Wondering how the Wahine will defend the high-flying Longhorn LS hitters, with their smallish RS players. Like you said, Longhorn hitters were hitting over the Oregon block. They will be hitting way over the Wahine RS players, if Shoji continues to use smallish RS players.

Disagree, good enough to be the 2012 NCAA WVB Champions. 24 blocks against a good Oregon team (2 blocks) and finish their match with only 4 hitting errors and put their opponent away hitting at .432
If thats not good enough for you, I dont what is.

BTW Texas only had to have 2 hitters with double digit kills coz everyone on the team did their roles.
I hope Shoji watched this team played tonight, if your going to depend on only 2 hitters, this is how you get everyone else on the team work and do what their suppose to do to win the match.